Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Western Democracy Is An Endangered Species On Its Way To Extinction — Paul Craig Roberts

The British Labour Party no longer represents the
working class. Under UK prime minister Tony Blair, the Labour Party became a
vassal of the One Percent. The result has been a rebellion in the ranks and the
rise of Jeremy Corbyn, a principled Labourite intent on representing the
people, a no-no in Western “democracies.”

Corbyn is too real for the Labour Party Blairites, who
hope to be rewarded with similar nest eggs as Blair for representing the
capitalist One Percent. So what is the corrupted Labour Party doing to prevent
Corbyn’s election?

The illegal Egyptian military dictatorship that
overthrew on Washington’s orders the first democratically elected government in
Egyptian history has issued an edict prohibiting journalists from contradicting
the military dictatorship. In brief, the dictatorship installed by Washington
has outlawed facts.

Washington rejected the government that the Egyptian
people elected, because it appeared that the democratically elected government
would have a foreign policy that was at least partially independent of
Washington’s. Remember, according to the neocons who, together with Israel,
control US foreign policy, countries with independent foreign policies, such as
Iran, Russia, and China, are America’s “greatest threats.”

The Egyptian military thugs, following Washington’s
orders, have more or less eliminated all of the leadership of the political
party that was democratically elected. The party was called the Muslim
Brotherhood. In the presstitute Western media, the political party was
described more or less as al Qaeda, and how are the ignorant, brainwashed, and
propagandized Americans to know any difference? Certainly neither “their”
government nor the presstitute media will ever tell them.

With the military dictatorship’s edict, independent
news reporting no longer exists in Egypt. Washington is pleased and rewards the
dictatorship with bags full of money paid by the hapless and helpless American
taxpayers.

Americans should keep in mind that most of the dollars
that they pay in income tax are spent either spying upon themselves and the
world or killing people in many countries. Without resources taken from
American taxpayers millions of women, children, and village elders would still
be alive in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, Ukraine,
South Ossetia, and other countries. America is the greatest exporter of
violence the world has ever known. So wear your patriotism on your sleeve and
be proud. You are a depraved citizen of the world’s worst killer nation.
Compared to the USA, Rome was a piker.

“In the name of the “war on terror,” the French state is dramatically
accelerating its use of clandestine operations to extra-judicially murder
targeted individuals. French President François Hollande reportedly possesses a
“kill list” of potential targets and constantly reviews the assassination
program with high-ranking military and intelligence officers.

“This program of state murder, violating basic
constitutional rights in a country where the death penalty is illegal,
underscores the profound decay of French bourgeois democracy. Amid escalating
imperialist wars in France’s former colonial empire and deepening political
crisis at home, the state is moving towards levels of criminality associated
with the war against Algerian independence and the Vichy regime of Occupied
France.”

Where do you suppose the socialist president of France
got his idea of an illegal and unconstitutional “kill list”? If you answer from
“America’s First Black President,” you are correct.

The French people should be outraged that “their”
president is nothing more than a murderer and an agent of Washington. But they
aren’t. False flag operations have made them fearful. The French like other
Western peoples, have ceased to think.

Every western democracy is gone with the wind. Washed
up, Finished. Every value that defined Western civilization and made it great
has been flushed by power and greed and arrogance.

Proconsuls have replaced
democracy.

I certainly do not believe that Western civilization
was ever pure as snow and devoid of sins and crimes against humanity. But it is
a fact that in Western civilization, despite the numerous injustices, reforms
were possible that improved life for the lower classes. Reforms were possible
that restricted the rapaciousness of the rich and powerful. In the US reforms
made the impossible come true: ladders of upward mobility made it possible for
members of the lowest economic class to become multimillionaires. And this
actually happened.

The governments in Washington committed many crimes,
but on occasion Washington prevented crimes. Remember President Eisenhower’s
ultimatum to Washington’s British, French, and Israeli allies to remove
themselves from the Suez Canal in Egypt or else.

Today Washington pushes its allies to commit crimes
against humanity. That is what NATO and the National Endowment for Democracy
are for.

In my lifetime Americans have always had a good
opinion of themselves. But in the 21st century this good opinion has hyper-jumped
into hubris and arrogance. If you haven’t been around very long in terms of a
human life, you don’t see this. But older people do.

Just as the Roman Empire ended in the destruction of
the Roman people, the American Empire will end in the destruction of the
American people. Judging from histories, Roman citizens were superior to
American citizens; yet, Rome failed.

Americans shouldn’t expect any other outcome. The
price to be paid for insouciance, self-satisfaction, and complicity is high.